आबाद ābād

आबाद ābāda a:ba:d (a) inhabited, populated; prosperous; —करना to settle, to populate; to reclaim (barren land etc.)

P آباد ābād [Z. āvāda; S. आवास], adj. Inhabited, populated, peopled; full of buildings and inhabitants, populous; settled (as a colony or town); cultivated; stored; full; occupied; — city, town (in this sense it commonly occurs as the last member of compounds, e.g. Faiẓābād, Ilāhābād); — flourishing, prosperous; pleasant; happy. — ābād-bashī, s.f. First assessment of newly settled or cultivated land. — ābād-rahnā, To be full, stored, flourishing, prosperous, happy or comfortable. — ābād-kār, s.m. The first settler on waste land. — ābād-karnā, v.t. To make (a place) habitable; to people, settle, found (a colony, &c.); to build and plant; to cultivate; to make (the heart, dil) rejoice, to comfort, rejoice (the heart); to build up (a house or family, ghar), beget (children). — ābād honā, To be full, flourishing, &c. ( = ābād rahnā, q.v.); to be occupied (as a house); to have the prospect of issue; to be married.